We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their vi...ews of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

You should try to understand every thing you see and hear; to act and judge for yourselves; to remember you each have a soul of yo...ur own to account for; M a mind of your own to improve. When you once get these ideas fixed, and learn to act upon them, no man or set of men, no laws, customs, or combinations of them can seriously oppress you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; b...ut in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident. The oldest Egyptian or Hindoo philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue of the divinity; and still the trembling robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did, since it was I in him that was then so bold, and it is he in me that now reviews the vision. No dust has settled on that robe; no time has elapsed since that divinity was revealed. That time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish wit...h strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

the vagabond beganTo sketch a face that well might buy the soul of any man....Then, as he placed another lock upon the shapely head,With a fearful shriek, he leaped and fell across thepicture--dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;I am not up to small deceit, or any sinful games;...And I'll tell in simple language what I know about the rowThat broke up our society upon the Stanislow.But first I would remark, that it is not a proper planFor any scientific man to whale his fellow-man,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »